I had intended to do the last round of Manchester Midweek MTB Madness last night. The Bow was clean and serviced and I was very organised with a box of kit in the car to go there straight after work. As 5.30 approached the sky grew darker and then it started to rain really hard.
Getting to the car I suddenly realised I had no contact lenses with me. In the dry this wouldn’t be a problem by riding in glasses in the wet and mud is impossible and riding with reduced eyesight would be dangerous so reluctantly I turned for home. As I approached Stafford the rain just got worse and worse. My training for the week though was depending on a hard session so I pulled out my training mountain bike and headed out to meet the Thursday night Chasers run. By the time I got to Marquis drive I was covered in sand and mud, the bike sounded like sandpaper and I was soaked. Unfortunately I missed the others so headed to Kitbag hill to do some reps on my own. I got some bizarre looks from riders returning from The Monkey Trail the other side of the railway as I bombed down only to turn straight round to climb back up again.
Getting changed afterwards was foul, sand and mud everywhere, even in my ears. Isn’t August meant to be summer ? Returning home later I checked out the results of the race I missed. The photos showed it to be just as bad, but the muddy faces were smiling so it must have been fun !
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